Mine May Be A Reality Soon.
With the coming election and the obvious fact that Iraq is turning into a quagmire with no end in sight, Bush and Co. have to remain very wary of the June 30 handover of power to the Iraqi Government. The one question people have to ask (which they never do) when something major happens is 'who benefits'? With all the mumbo jumbo on the airwaves about who's to blame, who's fault is whose, no one gets to any suspects if one would only ask the question 'who benefits'? Who is the real winner with all the serious uprisings going on in Iraq? Who, in the ultimate end, gains from the death and carnage filling our airwaves? Before you answer that think about this related thought. We now know the US-trained Iraqi military and the US-trained Iraqi police force are not any kind of authority voice in Iraq. They abandoned their police stations and are in negotiations with Al-Sadr for their reoccupying their own police station. They have not helped the Americans and in fact ran away from the enemy they had sworn to battle. Now let's go back to the original question. Who benefits from the unrest in Iraq. The Bush Administration cannot and will not allow anarchy and non-governance to reign in Iraq anytime after the June 30 handover of power. Bush cannot be campaigning so near to the election with Iraq in utter chaos due to the handover of power. That is political suicide. The only real option for Bush and Co. is to not allow the handover to take place. For the Bush Administration to be able to sell it to the US public they will need near anarchy in Iraq. And all we need to do is to take a look at the specific actions that made this all come about. The Al-Sadr newspaper, with a mere 10,000 readers, was closed on the orders of Paul Bremer. The reason given was because it incites violence towards the occupying invader. That may be well and good, but to believe that one would have to think Bremer is a total f**ktard for not knowing what reaction his actions would provoke. He then ordered the man's home to be surrounded by his forces. Anyone else think this makes the scene ripe for the makings of a martyr, considering the man is so anti-American and has many violent followers? These actions of the US were not designed for making any kind of peace and the intellectual class knows it. The actions would only produce flare-ups of violence. In that light it's fair to say the Bush Administration would benefit from a restless violent Iraq. A violent Iraq will hold back the transfer of power and then Bush will continue to sell the public the light at the end of the tunnel. The transfer of power will be promised to occur in the first half of 2005.
The US is losing major support for the war in Iraq. The US public needs something to believe in now that they have lost much faith in the war and it's causes. My predictions for the future are this: 1. A major terror attack will befall the US in late September/mid-October. At first I thought it likely to occur on American soil but then the thought hit me. The attack that will bring the US together again, united in the renewed war on terror, will be on the US forces in Iraq. And I don't think it will be anything conventional. It will be much more dramatic than mere battle. 2. The planned handover of power to the Iraqi people will be delayed probably until early 2005. 3. Osama will be presented as a war trophy to be placed in the White House War on Terror Trophy Case. 4. Bush will again win the Presidential election more decisively than he did in the 2000 election. 5. Weapons of Mass Destruction will be "found" in Iraq sometimes in the future, likely in the late summer period.
These are simply my thoughts on where I think the politics of today will lead us into tomorrow. I hope I am wrong, and hell, maybe I even pray that I'm wrong. But this is what I feel will happen. What are your predictions for the future people? Do you agree with me on any or all or none of what I think? If anything at all, I hope you start asking yourself the question 'who benefits' after you've read this. It's the loaded question people don't really want to ask, ever.